Arno Mohr

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Arno Mohr (left) with Otto Nagel at the founding congress of the Association of Visual Artists in May 1950
Memorial plaque for Ernst Zinna , Jägerstrasse 63c, in Berlin-Mitte
Grave of Arno Mohr in Berlin-Mitte

Arno Mohr (born July 29, 1910 in Posen , † May 23, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in the GDR . Mohr was best known for his reductionist drawings that observed everyday life in Berlin .

Stations

After completing an apprenticeship as a sign painter at Ladewig & Co in Posen from 1924 to 1927 and later as a journeyman, Arno Mohr attended evening courses at the arts and crafts school in 1929/30 . Finally, in 1933/34 he began studying at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . He was a student of anatomical drawing with Wilhelm Tank , with whom he later became an artist friend.

After the Second World War, Mohr was a co-founder of the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee , which was followed by a 29-year-old professorship from 1946 to 1975. During this time he made the acquaintance of the printers and artists Alfred Erhardt and Otto Dix in 1949 , which led to the establishment and management of the printing workshop at the Weißensee Art College. This also resulted in the establishment of an own workshop in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

In 1950 Mohr co-founded the Association of Visual Artists . In 1974 he became chairman of the Association of Visual Artists Berlin and a member of the Presidium of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR.

Works and exhibitions

Between 1950 and 1990 Mohr had numerous solo exhibitions and participations in exhibitions at home and abroad.

In 1949, together with René Graetz and Horst Strempel, he created the mural Metallurgie Hennigsdorf , a gigantic work measuring four by 16 meters that caused a sensation, but also immediately fell into the mills of the formalism campaign . The picture is destroyed shortly afterwards.

The portraits of Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht from 1971 as well as the landscape painting Blick zum Bode-Museum from 1989 are very well known . In 2000 Mohr also saw an exhibition of his works at the annual conference at the Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Awards and memberships

literature

Web links

Commons : Arno Mohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Wessel: The Art of Printing , Young World, April 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2001
Place of death Berlin